Matt Blaze finds flaws in FBI wiretap equipment

[Perry E. Metzger]

New York Times article:

   Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds

   By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN MARKOFF
   Published: November 30, 2005

   The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap
   telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped
   to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer
   security experts who studied the system. It is also possible to
   falsify the numbers dialed, they said.

   Someone being wiretapped can easily employ these "devastating
   countermeasures" with off-the-shelf equipment, said the lead
   researcher, Matt Blaze, an associate professor of computer and
   information science at the University of Pennsylvania.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/national/30tap.html

original paper at:

http://www.crypto.com/papers/wiretapping/   

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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